Second Lake in Kenai Peninsula Borough: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Second Lake is set in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. Height above sea level is 89 feet. The water covers some 64 acres, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. A shoreline of some 1.5 miles keeps the choices simple. You are 27 miles from Nikiski. Then Kenai, 37 miles, and Ridgeway, 38 miles. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Second Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Species logged across Kenai Peninsula Borough include northern pike, sockeye salmon and rainbow trout. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Second Lake the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 57°F; the cold one sits at 25°F. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Break-up comes around late April, and the run that follows is short and strong. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Second Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Chuitbuna Lake at 2.5 miles is the sensible second choice. Treat Second Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.